The signs at Marlins Park proclaimed, "All Rise for the Judge."
Presiding on Monday night was the honorable Aaron Judge, a towering figure at 6-foot-7 and 280 pounds, and he made hard contact with his bat instead of a gavel, winning the Home Run Derby.
Judge won 11-10 in an anticlimactic final against Minnesota Twins third baseman Miguel Sano. There was 1:53 left on the clock when the New...

A long-range penalty three minutes from time from Owen Farrell snatched a draw for the Lions in an epic third Test and with it a share of the series.
The All Blacks had led 12-6 at half-time through tries from Ngani Laumape and Jordie Barrett, and had blown at least two other clear try-scoring opportunities.
But three penalties from Farrell and a monster from Elliot Daly from beyond halfway...

Rapper Drake dropped disses about several basketball stars Monday during the first-ever NBA Awards Show.
Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James, former Los Angeles Lakers guard D'Angelo Russell, and Golden State Warriors teammates Stephen Curry and Draymond Green were a few of the names in his crosshairs.
He also lobbed a haymaker at LaVar Ball, the father of Los Angeles Lakers lottery pick...

Pregnant Serena Williams has posed naked on the cover of August's Vanity Fair magazine.
The tennis star found out she was expecting her first child with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian just before the Australian Open in January.
She told the magazine that she hadn't suspected anything until she was sick at the side of the court while practising.
But her friend suspected she might be...

Manchester United boss José Mourinho has been accused of tax fraud by Spanish prosecutors investigating his time as Real Madrid's head coach.
The Portuguese manager is accused of defrauding Spain of €3.3m ($3.6m) in taxes between 2011 and 2012. He has yet to comment on the claim.
A prosecutor says he did not declare income from the use of his image rights in order to get an "illicit...

A proposal to scrap 45-minute halves is to be looked at by football's lawmakers to deter time-wasting.
Instead, there could be two periods of 30 minutes with the clock stopped whenever the ball goes out of play.
Lawmaking body the International Football Association Board (Ifab) says matches only see about 60 minutes of "effective playing time" out of 90.
The idea is one of several put...

Rafael Nadal captured his record 10th French Open title on Sunday, dominating Stan Wawrinka in straight sets at Roland Garros.
The fourth-seeded Spaniard continued his clay-court prowess, easily winning 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 on Court Philippe-Chatrier in two hours, five minutes for his 15th Grand Slam title overall.
Nadal's "La Decima" -- Spanish for 10th -- in Paris lifts him into historic...

World number two Novak Djokovic said Andre Agassi will be his new coach after the Serb lost in the Italian Open final to Alexander Zverev.
The 12-time Grand Slam winner parted company with his entire coaching team earlier in May.
Former world number one Agassi will be with Djokovic in Paris for the French Open, which starts on 28 May.
The news was confirmed after German Zverev, 20, stunned...

World number one Andy Murray progressed to the third round of the Madrid Open with a straight-set victory over Romanian Marius Copil.
The 29-year-old Briton, who had a first-round bye, won 6-4 6-3.
Murray was not at his best early on but broke world number 104 Copil at 5-4 to take the first set and pounced again at 3-2 in the second.
He will face Croat Borna Coric or Frenchman...

The Italian football federation has rescinded Pescara midfielder Sulley Muntari's one-match ban for walking off the field in response to racist chants by spectators during a Serie A game against Cagliari.
The Ghanaian's two yellow cards that amounted to a red Sunday's match was annulled by the federation's appeal court on Friday following protests.
The first yellow card was issued for...